“Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee” RIP At 63

AP Wire is reporting:

“Sandra Dee, the blond beauty who attracted a huge teen audience with films such as “Gidget” and “Tammy and the Doctor” and had a headlined marriage to pop singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday morning of complications

Captain’s Quarters makes the rather obvious observation that

“The rationale for the DNC’s selection of Howard Dean as party chair has been that he “energized their base,” driving many new voters into electoral politics and creating a juggernaut for his

The Spoons Experience is not one of my regular reads. But I’m starying to think thta an omission on my part, after reading JIMMY CARTER FOR DUMMIES.

The New York Post :

“The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an insider-trading probe of shock jock Howard Stern’s deal to join Sirius Satellite Radio. “

Yeah. Big shock.
I wonder if they can install a studio in a

Donald Sensing of One Hand Clapping reminds us that today was Iwo Jima, back in 1945.

I’ve always been somewhat shaken after reading about this day’s history, and Don does a top notch job of recounting it. Shaken, I say,

Cathy goes off on Susan Estrich:

“Oh, for God’s sake. See, this is what I cannot stand about lefty feminists: Their preening notion that it’s a brave and scary and stomach-churning thing to voice what they imagine to be a

Bill at INDC goes deep for the big play on this Hume Socialist Security argument the leftie blogs are carping about. In short:

Though the interpretation by lefty bloggers that Hume’s implication is misleading is reasonable, and the final piece

“WASHINGTON, Feb 17(Reuters) Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is expected to visit Afghanistan with the top U.S. aid official to spotlight America’s aid work there, officials said on Thursday.”

Meanwhile, The French (AFP) Are reporting:

“US senator

I still have a dog looking for a new home. If you have a dog-sized space in your life…. this may be a good fit for you.

Update: Yes, not only did I inject a typo into the original

Power Line reader John Arcari informs us of the Debate between Howard “Duck” Dean and Richard Perele. The highlight of the report is when some 52 year old Democrat threw a shoe at Richard Perle while screaming “mother f****** liar”

Does a blogosphere frenzy that helps bring down a CNN news exec for a comment he made mean free speech is in peril? Nope. It’s exploding, saysBusiness Week. Choice snips:

” It’s all too easy to imagine that the

So says Wretchard, anyway.

I was having all KINDS of problems yesterday… I couldn’t get through, and when I did it ended up with 7 copies of one post, which I’d then have to clean up. A little frustrating.

Soccer Dad: Carnival of the Vanities #126

“Nuff Said.

Why do I never get one of these?
(Chuckle)

This write up of Billy’s this morning has me pondering again why George Patton got canned.

“We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think